Yesterday, when looking at the headlines about fast food workers striking for higher wages, I was struck by the irony of this article/video also sweeping through all my news sources

Robotic chef:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32282131

Quote from: Rupert on April 15, 2015, 12:43:08 PM
Bill, is that the right link?

Oops.   It is now.

http://giant.gfycat.com/TiredNegativeDikdik.gif

Quote.It's 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a car

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ready-to-lend-a-hand-or-3-in-the-next-disaster/2015/05/16/2ea78a16-fa6c-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html

(Warning: video less impressive than it sounds)

Go ahead and break this robot's legs. It can figure out how to chase you without them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/05/27/go-ahead-and-break-this-robots-legs-it-can-figure-out-how-to-chase-you-without-them/

3d printed robot opens combination locks in 30 seconds

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/this-little-3-d-printed-robot-cracks-combination-118967003179.html

Well, at least we'll be eviscerated with precision

http://i.imgur.com/UN6A3tf.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WO_f7_1z4A
First 30 seconds.

Carnegie Mellon lost 40 robotics engineers to Uber.
"Something tells me they're not going to be hiring a lot more new drivers pretty soon."

In Oregon they mandate jobs by making it illegal to pump your own gas.  I wonder if this is going to happen with tasks that are run by machines, like all fast food restaurants will need at least one human on site and all driverless cars/trucks will need a human on-board.

This article is claiming that driverless cars will wipe out ~4 million jobs and $148 billion in wages.

Will your self-driving car be programmed to kill you if it means saving more strangers?

The thing with robots...making them more "human" looking makes me freak out more.  I could not stay at that hotel in Japan that's run by human-looking robots or even deal with the ones that just "sorta" look human-like (the obvious machine looking ones that have a "head.")

Honestly, it triggers my lizard-brain fear response:  it's not rational at all, but the fear is there.

Yeah, I don' think you are alone there. 

Quote from: grnidone on July 01, 2015, 03:15:51 PM
The thing with robots...making them more "human" looking makes me freak out more. 

Well known effect usually referred to as the Uncanny Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Robot kills man http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/robot-kills-man-volkswagen-plant-germany-32163980